Everyone but Microsoft management, of course. Managers steered the ship ever more steadily to the dark side, building on their success with monopoly-abusing deals and secret contracts with the OEMs. Ship a CPU, pay for Windows whether you use it or not.
Bill Gates was an aggressive businessman which probably helped. And yea, that was the age of the AARD code, named after the programmer who wrote it, that tried to detect non-MS DOS.
Then Intel just HAD to resurrect the fucking "Pentium" name to describe low-end Core 2 CPUs... That made shopping for Intel CPUs a total nightmare. Was the "Pentium" a POS, or a half decent CPU? You needed a microscope to tell.
Not really, you could tell the difference the same way you tell a P3 from a P4 back in the day. But Celerons, well they did add a D suffix with the Prescott ones, but it caused confusion with the Pentium D.
Yea, I was thinking that CEOs like Steve Jobs and other famous people should sign their emails and USENET postings with a cert or a PGP signature, so that the authenticity of their emails can be verified. Anyone know of any CEOs or other famous people that does that?
Or, as the HarvardConnection founders have alleged, was he stalling the development of HarvardConnection so that he could build a competing site and launch it first?
Our investigation suggests the latter.
It also suggests that he had developed a strategy for dealing with his would-be competition: Delay developing it.
Next, Mark appears to have logged into the accounts of some ConnectU users and changed their privacy settings to invisible. The idea here was apparently to make it harder for people to find friends on ConnectU, thus reducing its utility. Eventually, Mark appears to have gone a step further, deactivating about 20 ConnectU accounts entirely.
And you thought Microsoft was the bad evil monopolist. Sure, it is all in the past now, but it was worse, I think.
Could this be turned into an anti-trust case?
The only significant exception that comes to mind is Wikipedia, which I frankly wish would at least run Google ads so Jimmy Wales would stop holding his hand out for donations all the time.
The OEM version of Office 2007 is sold like this, where there is a Medialess License Kit that contain the CD key (and the offer for a recovery CD for the customer), and there is a OPK master kit for OEMs that contain the CDs for OEMs to preinstall on their computers and preinstallation tools too.
Except that was an OPEN BOX. But I agree about badness of the quarterly earning game. I did a lot of research about this and other problems of shareholder value and agency theory. I even submitted articles on this to both Slashdot and Reddit.
You just can't get there from the company VPN which is the only way to connect on the "company laptop" (good thing they don't know about "Ubuntu" so my wife and I can skype each other when she travels).
There is no need to use XP and IE6 in order to use old VB6 ActiveX controls and software. Vista/7 and IE 7/8 is compatible with VB6 software and MS had always made that clear.
However, it imposed rules that no e-voting system in the near future is able to fulfill: Every citizen must be able to verify the correctness of the vote without specific technical knowledge. Not even open source e-voting systems meet this requirement.
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Everyone but Microsoft management, of course. Managers steered the ship ever more steadily to the dark side, building on their success with monopoly-abusing deals and secret contracts with the OEMs. Ship a CPU, pay for Windows whether you use it or not.
Bill Gates was an aggressive businessman which probably helped. And yea, that was the age of the AARD code, named after the programmer who wrote it, that tried to detect non-MS DOS.
Actually it is better, even the Pentium G9650 support VT-x. VT-d is different though.
Then Intel just HAD to resurrect the fucking "Pentium" name to describe low-end Core 2 CPUs... That made shopping for Intel CPUs a total nightmare. Was the "Pentium" a POS, or a half decent CPU? You needed a microscope to tell.
Not really, you could tell the difference the same way you tell a P3 from a P4 back in the day. But Celerons, well they did add a D suffix with the Prescott ones, but it caused confusion with the Pentium D.
And login using their account if possible (OpenID should help a lot) when commenting on blogs and forums, too, for the same reason.
it's not like his email was signed with a cert?
Yea, I was thinking that CEOs like Steve Jobs and other famous people should sign their emails and USENET postings with a cert or a PGP signature, so that the authenticity of their emails can be verified. Anyone know of any CEOs or other famous people that does that?
Yep, Intel's optimizations guide has a comparison.
In other news, AMD has a blog article on it's soon to be launched competitor to this, Socket G32 8-core/12-core Opterons:
http://blogs.amd.com/work/2010/02/22/magny-cours-is-right-on-schedule-and-shipping-to-customers/
And the founders of Google did not do any of these shenanigans that the founder of Facebook did.
But the corporation will, of course.
What about anti-trust, though? Because the attempt by Zuckerberg to sabotage ConnectU would be an anti-trust violation.
Or, as the HarvardConnection founders have alleged, was he stalling the development of HarvardConnection so that he could build a competing site and launch it first? Our investigation suggests the latter.
It also suggests that he had developed a strategy for dealing with his would-be competition: Delay developing it.
Next, Mark appears to have logged into the accounts of some ConnectU users and changed their privacy settings to invisible. The idea here was apparently to make it harder for people to find friends on ConnectU, thus reducing its utility. Eventually, Mark appears to have gone a step further, deactivating about 20 ConnectU accounts entirely.
And you thought Microsoft was the bad evil monopolist. Sure, it is all in the past now, but it was worse, I think.
Could this be turned into an anti-trust case?
Which Ars already does: http://arstechnica.com/subscriptions/
but how many offer a system to "mod" the delivered advertising? NONE. Not a single one. Not even Slashdot nor ARS Technica.
I think it would be up to the ad system delivering the ads to be able to do this. So complain to Google/DoubleClick for example if you want this.
The only significant exception that comes to mind is Wikipedia, which I frankly wish would at least run Google ads so Jimmy Wales would stop holding his hand out for donations all the time.
And Wikia already does, I think.
The OEM version of Office 2007 is sold like this, where there is a Medialess License Kit that contain the CD key (and the offer for a recovery CD for the customer), and there is a OPK master kit for OEMs that contain the CDs for OEMs to preinstall on their computers and preinstallation tools too.
Except that was an OPEN BOX. But I agree about badness of the quarterly earning game. I did a lot of research about this and other problems of shareholder value and agency theory. I even submitted articles on this to both Slashdot and Reddit.
Indeed, D&H has already tried to send a cease and desist letter to two sites reporting this: http://www.techeye.net/business/company-threatens-journalists-over-fake-intel-cpu-reports
You just can't get there from the company VPN which is the only way to connect on the "company laptop" (good thing they don't know about "Ubuntu" so my wife and I can skype each other when she travels).
Why, BTW? Because that don't seem sensible.
There is no need to use XP and IE6 in order to use old VB6 ActiveX controls and software. Vista/7 and IE 7/8 is compatible with VB6 software and MS had always made that clear.
How many of these are security updates?
Yea, it is a fundamental problem, dating back to the days of IBM. Any solutions?
However, it imposed rules that no e-voting system in the near future is able to fulfill: Every citizen must be able to verify the correctness of the vote without specific technical knowledge. Not even open source e-voting systems meet this requirement.
And IMO I would not go that far, but...
Yep, I submitted an article on this to Slashdot and it got accepted: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/01/28/1316226/Behind-Googles-Recent-Decision-About-China http://slashdot.org/submission/1160250/Behind-Googles-recent-decision-about-China
Yea, I know Google is one of the better big companies for a while now. BTW, Sergey Brin was very involved here, and I even did a Slashdot submission on it that got accepted. Here it is:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/01/28/1316226/Behind-Googles-Recent-Decision-About-China
http://slashdot.org/submission/1160250/Behind-Googles-recent-decision-about-China
Not directly, I think they create stats and sell them instead.